The Sun. — London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE 'PUBLIC P:A.RNALS. The body of Courtenay has been committed to the earth, tend the proceed':nge arising out of the riot may be said to be 'now suspendesa. We trust the fatal result of this affair will Ibe a lesson 'to men in elevated stations to beware how they - practise (en the working classes. One Noble Lord, a great landowner in Kent, has made use of language, both at public lineeti•ags and in his place in Parliament, calculated to produce stile -very worst effects on the minds of these people. Our readers can hardly have forgotten the extravagant language used by Earl Stanhope in the House of Lords on the 20th of efelareda last, when arraigning the new Poor-law. After a ereat deal of absurd reasoning, to prove that the old Poor-law • produced the most beneficial results, and that paying men, rot for the labour performed by them, but according to the number of their children—a strong young man receiving 3s. or 4s. a week, and a men with a large family, not etidas to do half as much work, receiving perhaps twenty ,shillings a week —was the very perfection of the social state, his Lordshies proceeded to show that a rebellion of the labouring claeses was perfectly justifiable. " Their Lord ships all knew," he said, " that allegiance and protection are inxcparabte; and he would ask their Lordships whether, wi der such circumstances as he had described, they could expect that the labourers of this country wculd feel an attachment to its laws or institutions, or even feel a respect for property it self? On the contrary, whether their Lordships must not be- Aieve that that discontent which was now known to be so gene ral and so just might assume a character that must threaten disorganization to the state ?" This is pretty well for a com mencement. But his Lordship warms as he proceeds. " The -people," he continues, " might in some parts of the country appear submissive to this iniquitous law, but the feelings of re ssentment and revenge would still rankle in their minds, and at no distant period might fatally disturb the public peace. The time might Come when the people might cease to petition fur relief from the oppression of this cruel enactment. . . . The people wood next remonstrate and demand; nay, they might cease even to do the latter, and might possibly attempt to obtain by force that which they were not able to gain by ar gument." We have just seen the issue of one of those at tempts to obtain by force what they were not rile to obtain by argument. Sir William Courtetkay undertook to free them from eithes and taxes, and to cause rents to be lowered. A tproelsecy is riot always thrown away. " It behoved their Lord :Alps," he continued, " seriously to ask themselves (he would not venture to propound to them the question) how long they thought it possible that the people of this country would squictly submit to this pressur e; an d if t h e people did not ekubreit what were the calamitie - s and convulsions which must inteitably ensue ? He called upon their Lordships to respect, as they were bound to do, the rights of the labouring classes—rights which were founded in the laws of God and nature—rights which ought always to be held sacred—rights 'which were as dear and as valuable to them as the patents by which their Lordships enjoyed their Peerages, or the title 'deeds by which they obtained possession of their estates. tat there do this, and the rich would enjoy unmolested their 'wealth, and, what was of still more impestance, they would :repose in tranquillity and content. But if this were not done, the inevitable result—he stated it with great pain and sorrow, but with a firm and thorough convictdon of its truth—the ine ;:vitable result would be a part ; :iion of property." Under - the old law the partition in several parishes had already taken place, and in the partition the nominal owner came but very scurvily off. Alluding to the opinion delivered by a Noble and Gallant Marquie who declared that if their Lordships passed the New door-law they would not only lose their estates, but we.ald deserve to lose them, his Lordship pro ceeded to desdiare___. " That i r . their Lordships did not respect, as be most ear_ neatly ce njuted them to do, the rights of the labouring classes - --righ*.s which were allowed to be theirs by the statutes of Que'sn Elizabeth—they might lay what flattering unctioa to the it souls they pleased, but they might be assured that a ".:solution was at the very threshold of their doors ; a revolution ..of the most formidable and tremendous nature ; a revolution in which there would be no protection for property or life. It had thug 'boen his painful duty, however feebly he might have done it,. Tedwever ineffectual his humble admonitions migeet have been.. it yet had been his painful duty thus to ware_ their Lordsbipese, 3Dierilnly to warn them of the consecreences of their tontleet —to warn them of the dangers seit:ii Which they Weee threat .encel, in order that they might., 'before it was too late, avert them—conseduences and (it e.egers whith would level to the ground all the existing itSstitutions of the country, and intro duce in their stead a - -tarchy and ruin. He had received in lerneeon from varisess parts of the country respecting the dis- Feadeion of the ersople and the feelings of the labourers, such as he did not, think it prudent to promulgate or discuss in their -Isordsleips' House ; but this he would venture to say, in despite of all adreonitiona, that if their Lordships did not remove the ,grievances which the new Poor-law inflicted on the people, exert- serious consequences would inevitably ensue. Ha. would 2,, Y 0? 'oon c 1 t,l e his addr ess t o t h e i r L or d s h ips i n the very im opressive language and in the spirit in which a Judge addressed lit if to a culprit at the bar---e May C 0 D send you a good eldllveranc I' " Language like this may only excite asmile in Parlianie- ii .t ~ :'but it has a tendency to produce very different rcsulte on the; ' labouring classes. The words rights and lilteeties have al ensagical effect. Our correspondent was -;,loan, at a very :short dietance from the church-yard in which Courtenay was lihuried, a large wooden building ce v eed the Parsonage-house, eion which was a writing painted - by a b rush dipped in lime, Zaial to have been by 'etith s, one of Courtcnay's follow ers , concluding with the we ds " Our rights and liberties we will dbave." These Pe' e sie have been told by unprincipled Tory •candidates, for election purposes, that the new Poor-law was .an unjust, 'tinchristian law, and they have been believed. We tertnsteb - at what has t a k en pl ace will bc a warning—not to E ar l feltr'tope, for we should never think of reasoning with him— Er.t to those unprincipled politicians who, for unworthy pur. loses, laboured to delude the lower classes into a belief that they shared their prejudices against the new Poor-law, 'that it is much easier to rouse the prejudices of the people than to allay them. We know of nothing_ <half so disgraceful in the history of the countr tas the conduct of the Tories at the late elections with reger to the New Poor Law. Our evening contemporary, th ;4.??andard, will have it that Ceertenay was a Dissenting ee , cher. "If (says our contemporary) these forty were all 'Uneducated persons, it is lee very severe imputation upon the -county of Kent, which Has a population of half a trillion, that -out of that half million forty uneducated persons could be .folsee tte follow a Dissenting teacher like Courtenay, whose easalewers were imposing, and his doctrines attractive though tetravagane." If credit can be given to a pamphlet, pub lished some time ago at Canterbury, alluded to by our correspondent, Courtenay came under nn engagement 'to read only the Standard, an engagement which he kept, so that during his instruction from sttch an ortho dox source it is hardly fair in our contemporary to term him a Dissenting tkacher. He certainly in his review spoke in a very unorthodox manner respecting Tithes, which Imo wished to abolish altogether; but if hatred to Tithes be `taken as a mark of dissent, espe c ially in a county in which, from the Jew of gavelkiea, the farmer is often the owner of the land he cultivates, niesny are Dissenters who have no sus picion of their being c'eo. We dismiss this subject for the pre sect, hoping that elie calamity will be productive of this advan tage, that pultVic men will in future be more guarded in their language se hen characterising laws which they conceive may lie coceverted into a source of annoyance to political opponents. It is quite clear that Courtenay would not have spoken to the people of Kent as he did in his reviews if he had not ascer tained that they were dissatisfied with the existing state of things.—Morning Chronicle. . For some days past we have abstained from touching a sub ject on which most of our contemporaries have been indulging themselves freely, and in terms of much party warmth. Our caessest wish has been to procure a little breathing time, and ta see others enjoy the same advantage, that they and we might 'return to a discussion, fraught with far deeper interest 'tbaa "..relongs to the mere concerns of faction, in a spirit of so brie ty, calmness, aed truth. The position which has been t+ - Ken up within the last week by Conservatives and Ministers, , with regard to one or more of the great Irish questions, is one 'which cannot fail to make every honest Englishman anxious - for the result, and the more anxious because of many grounds 'of confidence which are mingled with those of apprehension. For the first time since Lord Melbourne's accession to office, :las there been recognized between the two political parties any thing like a definite agreement upon common principles, so far as related to Ireland. For the first time have Ministers adnounced their lasspe that a Church Bill without an appro priation clause would prove a " satisfactory adjustment" of .the tithe question, For the first time has Sir Robert Peel declared that hss saw such a prospect of final security to the Church, as would permit him and those wise acted with him tto enterteen and examine a proposal for establishing new cor peratiesns in Ireland on the basis of popular election. This is a pe'att of immense importance. There is no longer a dis rite upon principles of government ; and we confess, there fore, that our own gratification at the removal of a barrier so impassable has, by the novel prospect . of success which it 'opens, rendered us in proportion more alive to the pain and fearful consequences of a disappointment. Nothing could be more widely opposite than the spirit in which this approximation of sentiment was originally acknowledged between the two leaders of party, and that which has since appeared to govern 'their professed followers and allies. The speech of Sir R. Peel and the first speech of Lord J. Russell on Tuesday, the 29th 'of May, left hardly anything to wish for on the part of those - et r oo realty desired an " adjustment" of the Irish Ties -Aim:as That the proposals of the Right Hon. Baronet and illeir general acceptance by the Noble Lord should have: - proved unpalatable to Mr. O'Connell, is in nowise inconsis tent with the above observation ; because upon Mr.`O'Con mell's own repeated assurances and boastings, he is not one of ithOSC who seek an adjustment of such questions, except on tterms destructive of the Protestant Church, and resulting in Popish supremacy. To the debate of that evening we shall ttio further allude than by remarking, that the malignant genius e sof O'Connell would have shed its evil influence in vain, had :not circumstances with which he had no concern provoked Lord ;John Russell to a second speech, and dragged from him k(we think reluctantly) a re-assertion, otherwise uncalled for, 'of his individual adherence to the old appropriation prin ciple —a confession which gave rise to much acrimonious commentary on b o th sides, for two or three days suc ceeding. All t hi s, h owever , was the less dan s ese- Toue, because it was confined to the Church question, on which no difference of opinion was likely to show itself in the that irovisions of the Bill - Th e C orporat i on Bill was with zespcct to which more s er i ous difficulties of a practical nature. -were apprehended than any a r i s i ng out o f the direct " Church 'question." As respected the Corporation Bill, Sir Robert Peel announced emphatically two d e liberate resolutions. Ist. That whatever amount of qualification 'vat to be fixed upon for the municipal franchise, " he would insist on its tkeing a bora fide and not a fictitious franchise"—a condition 'which necessarily included that of instituting some valid test, whereby the reality of the frasschiae should in each instance be decided, The evidence of those shameful frauds and perjuries which had been proved before the Commit. tee on fictitious votes was glanced at by Sir Robert Pee), as abundantly justifying and demanding the strictest precautions for the defence of the rightful constituency against usurpers of their franchise, and the fact of ratepay ing under the Poor Law was then specifically described by the leader of the Conservatives as the check most wertliv of approval. 2d. Sir Robert Peel, notwithstanding a widely prevalent opinion that a 20/. qualification would be most eli gible as a requisite for the municipal franchise, avowed his w i .11 that an uniform standard should be settled both for burgesses and Parliamentary electors, and since the rate al ready established was tha: of la., the Right Hon. Baronet declared his willingness to accept that lower standard, pro vided, as he said before, it should be a bona fide attested standard, to be recognized and acted on solely in conformity with the rating. These were the announcements made by Sir Robert Peel, declaratory of his intentions with regard to the new Corporation Bill, and we have dwelt won them the more particularly from finding the uncandid and dishonest pertinacity with which the course of the Right Honourable Baronet last Friday evening has been since misrepresented by the Radical and Popish press, as if Sir Robert Peel had attempted to with draw from, or evade, the promises ma d e by him on his intro duction of the subject only three days preceding. It has been said that the Conservative leader on Friday endeavoured to render his previous concessions less liberal and effective than when he had originally held them out. This is utterly false. He had on Tues 'ay proposed 101. for the amount of qualifica tion and a rating under the Poor-law, or, failing the Poor-law, some equivalent test of real value for its truth. On Friday he adhered religiously to those conditions; he again insisted on 101. for the quantum, and on rating of some sort for the , teat. On Tuesday, after Sir R. Peel had spoken, and Lord J. Russell had listened attentively to his statements, the Noble Lord, so far from flying off, or manifestine the slightest hosti lity or objection of a g e n era l nat u r e t o the proposals of the Right Hon, Baronet, expressed, in tones expressia e of much satisfaction, and of equal sincerity, his hope and trust that these Irish questions would be brought to a close during the present session. He distinctly concurred in the application of rating as a test, and merely deferred an answer upon the amount of franchise. It is to be observed, moreover, that on Friday evening Lord John Russell exerted himself to qualify the Popish asperity and exacting greediness of Messrs. Cr Con nell 4nd Shell, as well as to make known his very different and far more liberal estimate than that which they had professed to form of the motives by which Sir Robert Peel was actuated. Nothing was more palpable, and nothing certainly more pitiable, than the prompt subserviency with which the leader of the Queen's Government in the House of Commons assumed in matter, though not in phrase or manner, the hue prescribA to him by his Roman Catholic preceptors, when the amount of qualification was disputed. It was not until after Messrs. O'Con nell and Sheil had Set up their cry of the Popish interest being ie danger, and of its being the scheme of Sir R. Peel to " raise the political...franchise," under cover of that for burgesses, that Lord John Russell changed his front, and at once attacked the 101. qualification. The Noble Lord did not indeed repeat the insulting nonsense put forth by Mr. O'Connell, and since enlarged upon in each day's newspaper among those journals in the Popish interest. Lord John Russell did not say that a test of truth was a restraint upon the exercise of any legiti mate power. He did not allege, after Mr. O'Connell, that the object of a test was to raise the amount of qualification above its lawful or ostensible value. Lord John Russell had too keen a tense of the difference between truth and falsehood to asseverate that the enforcement of an obligation to pay a rate of 101. was the same thing as raising the qualification to 20/. We cannot minutely follow, and dare not garble, the masterly argument of Sir William Follett, In proof that the object of Sir Robeft Peel brae tacit been to raise the existing qualification beyohd *hat the Act of Patliament enjoins, but merely to pteetat the prbfligate reduction of the franchise, by fraud and perjury b'el'ow the scale ptoeltled by Act of Par liament, Sir Robert Peel bas no meaning but to call things by their keni , t'a names, to bring sound into harmony with 1 enhetaten, to substitute reality for fiction, to require that 10/. I ehefil be paid for that of which it is the lawful price, and that the work of a 101. qualification shall not be done by half the number of shillings. Now, if we were not convinced that he already knows it, we could inform Lord John Russell that the people of England are, upon this matter of Irish qualification, completely and heartily with Sir Robert Peel. We could as sure the Noble Lord, that if he stands out upon this f. audulent system of franchise, and at O'Connell's bid ding, he will sacrifice better friends, and more formidable, than the Popish faction. We could satisfy him, if he wanted proof, that should be form that tine ise and un safe determination, it is he, not Sir Robert Peel, who will be reproached by the people of England for obstructing (and from unworthy motives) the establishment of salutary corporate institutions in Ireland. We do tell him, that Sir Robert Peel will not recede from his avowed resolution on this vital subject, that the Conservative leader dares not recede f".om it. That the, Conservative mind is unanimous and unal terable not to give up the 101. municipal franchise for Ireland, as it is to reject the appropriation clause. But we would rather put it to Lord John Russell, that it is not for his name or honour to persist, under vile tutelage, in such an attempt— that he has now, for the first time, a fair opportunity of res cuing himself, and the Government of which he is a part, from that eminently false position in which a series of deplo rable occurrences and combinations have placed them, and that he makes but a sorry exchange in bartering all Eng land for a mess of perishable flummery administered to him by Mr. Daniel O'Connell. —Times. It will be seen by our last Report of Parliamentary pro ceedings that the Imprisonment for Debt Bill went through a Committee on Friday last, and the amendments being added, the Report was ordered to be received on Thursday next— the day after to-morrow. There is, therefore, some prospect 1 of this desirable measure being completed during the present Session. Our gratification at this result was, however, un pleasantly diminished bo seeing a petition presented on the same evening from the tradesmen of Marylebone against the passing of the Bill. The ground whieh the petitioners take is, that the measure will be injurious to credit, both as regards classes and as regards the nation. We differ on this subject, toto ccelo, with the petitioners. Credit has been more im paired by the present law, both in public and private, that can bear calculation. Vast sums of money, equal to a fifth of the ' national income, are uselessly wasted in law expences. A large proportion of the population (12,000 were incarcerated-in one year) is cut off from the natural exertion of its industry ; and so ciety is cut off from that industry's profitable results. Mean while the wives and children of the imprisoned debtors come upon the poor rates; and continue still more to aggravate the pressure upon industrious exertion. So-far from credit being injured by the reform proposed by the present Bill—so far from the reform proposed being liable to the sarcastic imputation levelled at it that it is for the purpose of protect ing dishonest creditors against their honest debtors—its opera tion will be directly the reverse : it will protect honest creditors against dishonest debtors. What is, in fact, the present operation of the law? Does it tend, by the example of malignant punishment, to prevent improvident or unprin cipled individuals from contracting debts which they have no prospective means of discharging? Quite the re t a i e v s s i CI per niciouslyurtls tempts t r a a n c d t t p h r on s m e p d ts eb im ts p ; ro s v in id c e e nt th o e r t u ra n d p e r s irg a i facile in trusting in proportion to his confidence In P n le bec i o nvre m ed the instrument placed in his hands by the present law for ex torting through the influence of fear or pain an usurious over charge. The charge is usurious, being naturally calculated according to the risk run. A tradesman's counter by this process becomes a gambling table. But unfortunately the mischief is not confined to the victim—even if he pay the usurious charge ; or to the tredesman, if he do not pay it. Non-payment is infinitely more likely : inasmuch as a man who gets into debt with a deliberate intention of never ' paying at all, or being whitewashed by the Insolvent Court, does net care a single straw whether he is charged one-third more than the market price, or double the market price. Ho never intends to pay at all ; and, therefore, it is of no conse quence. Unfortunately, the innocent public suffer for all this usurious absurdity and improvident profligacy—in which the debtor and the creditor are equally to blame--the one spreading the net, and the other rushing into it. Prices, in consequence, are unnaturally raised ; for the real ready-money price will always approximate, more or less, towards the ficti tious credit price. All these various abominaticees of fictitious credit—the very worst filth of the whole Augean stable of the law—the present Bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debt will sweep away. We wish the measure, therefore, full success—that success we cannot doubt that ultimately it must have. With the exception of the respectable petitioners and allies (we do not like to see them coupled with pettifogging lawyers and bum-bailiffs), there are no patrons of the present low except some few antiquated Peers, who either deem it their duty to resist all change, or their province to maintain the feudal abuses of past times. The great majority of mer chants and bankers, of the professional and of the middle classes, have unmistakingly pronounced their opinions respect ing it. They have passed sentence upon it, and it is impos sible that its extinction can be much longer delayed.—Morn icy Advertiser. Notwithstanding our gentle demonstration of last week upon the subject of the Corn-laws, and the Spectator's monomania thereanent, our contemporary will have it that he is not 'mad at all, even upon this subject, but speaks forth the words of truth and soberness. This is the old story—the man in Bed lam when asked how he happened to be shut up, answered coolly that he said the world was mad, and the world said he was mad, but the world was the stronger party, and so there he was. We sincerely hope that the world will also remain the stronger party in the Spectator's case, and be able to maintain that it is on all accounts more advisable to raise corn out of our own fields than be dependant for our food upon purchases from foreigners ; and this, too, notwithstanding that persons with fixed incomes must give a rather larger share of those incomes for corn grown a t ' home than they would have to give (under ordinary circumstances) for corn grown abroad. We beg the Spectator to be persuaded that, however sane and sagacious upon other subjects, it is absolutely and unequivocally beside itself upon the Corn-law subject. We have consulted the most eminent doctors upon the case, and tee have no more doubt of it than we have that many others who ad vocate the repeal of the Corn-laws are not mad at all, but only , exceedingly mischievous, and desperately selfish. The con troversy with these latter is an irritating task, because we feel they arc not to be argued with, but rebuked. We do not I want to change their opinion, for if that were honestly de clared it would be found with us; but we have to point out to scorn the grasping selfishness, and total disregard of all in terests, save those of petty personal gain, which actuate the opponents of the landowners and the farmers. We are satis fied, however, that the Spectator TrouM not ,-, ~,, : _1 the Corn, laws or any other laws, save from a beih t teat they did harm to the country generally. Our Contemporary is a monoma niac, but sincere, and as monomania may be cured by calm 'THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 108. discussion, we venture to entreat our Contemporary's kind at- • tention while we expound to him the fallacies in his replicati on of last Saturday. We said that the present system of Corn-laws was an admirable self-adjusting arrangement, upon which our Cntemporery observes—" Alas ! the farmers have told a different story, and are likely soon to repeat it. The present Corn-laws arc ten years old, and during the period of their eaistence how often has agriculture been on the verge of ruin, with wheat at from 38s. to 40s. a quarter? Ask Mr. Cayley, question Lard Chandos, read the evidence given to the Agricultural Com mittee of 1833, and then talk of the admirable s elf-adjusting arrangement." These observations indicate a very strong case of hallucination ; we must try to make it obvious by the exhibition of a similar fallacy upon a subject on which the patient is probably quite sane. The system of the Corn Laws is an admirably self-adjusting arrangement with reference to be the keeping cut of foreign corn when competition w ould be injurious, and the admitting of foreign corn when such admis sion would not be injurious, but, on the contrary, a public benefit ; but it is not pretended that the adjustment goes beyond this, and can prevent an injurious depression of price in agricultural pro duce when arrising from other causes than foreign competition. The farmers of England, or Mr. Cayley, or Lord Chandos, even when complaining of the depression of agriculture, would no more have repealed the Corn Laws than they would have cut off their left hands to cure a weakness in their right bards. It will, we suppose, be admitted that doors, and windows, and blankets, under judicious domestic management, are very efficacious for keeping out the winter's cold. It did happen, however, that during the severity of last winter even these arrangements failed to keep up a comfortable tempe rature the oughout the dwelling-houses of this northern and sea-encircled land. Would the Spectator therefore recom mend a free trade in wintry atmosphere ? an uarestricted adniissicn of external cold ? an Opening of the ports of our houses to the blasts from the Mitre ? We should think nut. Yet that would be quite as rational a remedy fur the untoward temperature of last January as the admission of foreign grain would be for the depression of prices in our corn markets. Some people who are hugely philosophical assert that Dr. Arnott's stove is "an admirable self-adjusting arrangement." It is precisely upon the principle of our present corn laws ; and, with all deference to the Doctor's originally of mind, we apprehend that the idea of his stove must have been taken from the corn laws. The Doctor (if we have heard his in vention rightly described) assumes 60 of Fahrenheit to be a comfortable Fedi= temperature, and has so arranged the machinery of his stove that if a supply of warmth be required to bring the air of a room up to 60, the air -post of the stove is opened, and the fire burns briskly, but when that temperature is attained then, by the self-adjusting principle of the apparatus, the air-post shuts again, or does so to such an extent as to keep the temperature about 60. Here is ex tctly the Corn-law principle in a store, but if he of the Spectator could not cook his beaf-steak or even boil an egg upon this stove (which assuredly he could not), would he cry out " away with your admirable self-adjustment—alos what signifies it, when here have I a beef-steak not unwilling to be dressed, and yet I suffer hunger, not being able at this boasted stove to dress it ?" To such a complaint the answer would be that the self-adjustment was calculated to keep the temperature at 60, and to the complaint against the Corn laws that the selfsad justment is calculated to regulate the application of foreign competition. Neither the Corn laws nor the stove can do that which they were not made to do. When wheat was at two guineas the quarter it is se ry true that the agricultural interest was in a state of depression and suffering, but it must seem tolerably evident to all persons of sane understand ing that if so low a price as two guineas produced suffer ing, an importation of foreign wheat et 325. the quarter would have made the state of things very considerably worse. We suggested last week, that, supposing .. there w e re a profitable trade to spring up between British manufacturers and foreign corn growers, this country would in consequence lose the profitable trade which is carried on between British manufacturers and British corn growers. We could not ima gine that our manufacturers would purchase both foreign corn and home-grown corn, and we hinted that tho gain of the fo reign trade would not compensate for the loss of the home trade. The Spectator answers thus— " But it might come to pass that laud in England would housed more profitably than in producing an article which requires an enormous pro tecting duty. The great trade between British landowners and culti vators would not be destroyed. It would not be a corn trade, but expe rience has proved that the possession of land near manufacturing towns is the sure means of converting a poor into a wealthy proprietor. There would be less corn raised, but more sheep and oxen reared and sold— fewer fields of grain, but more towns and vil!agcs in the country." To us all this seems to be mere raving. At best it can only be regarded as a Utopian speculation of what " might come to pass," and yet it is given as an equivalent for the certainty of the rich return which we know is given to British cultiva tion of the soil. In what wild visions may we not employ ourselves if we are thus to speculate upon what might come to pass. We wish we could believe with the Spectator that the country might be as rich and happy as it is, though pasture and wood took the place of corn fields, for we have a distinct pre ference for hay fields over corn fields, as an affair of the plea sant and the picturesque. But there is no foundation for the belief of a sane man that the soil of this country could be turned to profitable account if the growth of corn were aban doned. As soon as the Speettator is able to prove that all the land in England wow devoted to the production of corn could be used more profitably than in producing an article which re quires protection against foreign competition—as soon, we say, as this shall he proved, we give up the point we have hitherto maintained, and we shall confess that the sayings of the Spectator arc worthy of all acceptation, and not monoma niac ravings, as we now consider them. —Morning Post. The evening organ of the Government, with its usual hums. nity and taste, has chosen the lamentable catastrophe in Kent as a subject of brutal scoffing and stupid jocularity. The cir cumstance of the bayonets of British soldiers being steeped in the bleed cf the Queen's subjects , he i gh tened in its tragic misery by the bereavement of widows a nd orphans, affords inviting a theme for its dull merriment and ponderous levities .as as did the sufferings of the negro slaves , in r eference to tne sad narrative of whose heart-rending wrongs it was the other day so amusingly facetious. If the "lea rned Theban .who indites such ill-tinted and witless ribaldry for the Globethmks that he serves the cause of his patrons of the Treasury i n that way, he must estimate the understanding and feelings of the English people according to a Spanish scale of civilisation. Nor do we wonder at that, seeing the close conne ction which subsists between the genius of the Foreign-office and the brigandage and bloodshed of the Peninsula. The " bucca neering war" has, indeed, made the -practice of cruelty but too familiar to many British subjects; but the morals of the people of England are not yet contaminated by Spanish example, and hu manity is among the first of their virtues. Leaving the miserable jester of the Globe to jingle his fool's-cap and bells over the carnage which has attended the freaks of the madman Courte nay, whom our Government let loose upon society from a lu natic asylum, we turn to another Liberal contemporary, that, neither on the subject of slavery, or destruction of human life by military execution, culls topics of dull levity and disgust in g me rriment—we allude to Th e S un —a journal from whic h, we need hardly say, we diff er i n p o liti cs as w id e ly as from pole to pole, but whose views of some great questions affecting public morals and the rights of humanity coincide with our own . ; the exti nc ti on of slavery, and the abolition of capital punishments being of the number. In alluding to the article in the Mornin g H era ld of yesterday, on the subject of the Kentish tragedy, The Sun has, in one respect, some what mistaken our meaning. Our contemporary says The Herald of thir morning, in an article which we insert, and of which we can speak only with approbation, offers a sort of defence of the first arrest of Courtenay, by saying that It is an offence against the law and the Queen's peace for a ' number of persons to be riotously and routously assembled, and to go about the country armed with bludgeons in such a manner as nas calculated to create terror in the minds of the Queen's subjects.' That may be the law, but some deposi tions before magistrates are required that persons have r iotously assembled before warrants can be issued to arrest them. A magistrate being present on the spot, and witnessing the breach of the public peace, may arrest the offending individuals; but no magistrate was present, no depositions appear to have been taken, and no proper precautions were adopted after the war rants were issued to ensure the peaceable and successful arrest of the lunatic." We were not conscious of stating what we did as a defence of the first attempt to arrest Courtenay, fora more blundering sort of business than that attempt we never heard of. What we said on that point was only in answer to the ststemeet of The Sun, as to the allegotion that up to that time "no legal offence had beencommittad" by Courtenay and his fol lowers. We showed that there was an offence against the public peace, which would have justified an arrest, if executed accord ing to the legal forms ; but we never said or insinuated that warrants could have been regularly issued for the arrest of any of those persons thus unlawfully assembled, without an infor ' ?nation previously laid. We took for granted that the Pub lished statement of warrants having been issued against Courtenay and two of his deluded followers, for some ollence or other, was correct, and s u pp osed that su ch warrants had been issued in the regular w ay ; but .we expres s l y guar d e d ourselves edg e on thefro m subject,beingb y understoodebs observing n a g s th havingat" we w ere l e f t i n the any positive-know j dark, both as to what the charge was, and upon w h ose infor mation the warrants were issued." We had not then seen the report of the evidence taken on Monday before the Ma gistrates at Feversharn. That report, winen contained some other matters also to which we would have alluded, had we been acquainted with them when we wrote, did n o t arr i ve a t our office until some time aft er that article had b een i n print—for instance, we mad e no allusio ,i to the circum stance of Mr. Church, the Surge on, of ttingbourne, having stated that he saw Lieut. Bennett run a man . through the body u th d e en p e r y in . eip lat l points with his sword before Courtenay shot it circumstance, however, contradicted by others, t± Inch would not have been ofafirtltioeis true leave evidenceomitted n regardwhen toireasoningtsleual"tel the coroner declined to swear Mr. Church to that statement, and, with so much evidence to the contrary, it is hardly possi ble but that gentleman mus t have been mistaken ; still the statement having been made must, under the sanction of an oath become part of a more deliberate inquiry clse w h e f e . But on the :subject of the warran t our evening contemporary says : " But what if there should have been no such warrants is sued? Before the coroner, as reported, Mears, the constable swore that he went to execute three warrants.' Before the Magistrates yesterday, at Feversham, presided over by Dr. Poore, the principal agent in the whole proceedings, and w h o must have known whether M ears was stating what is accurate, he deposed, we presume on oath, that he went w i t h hi s brother to execute the writ against Courtenay.' D. Edwards repeats these words also, we believe on oath, and states that he went with the last witness to execute the writ on Cour tenay.' We cannot suppose that this word twice repeated in the presence of Dr. Poore etTor ; and, if it be Osi an error, Courtenay was to be arrested on a civil writ, nut on a criminal warrant. That circumstance, wish the total absence of all proof that any depositions were made before any Magis. trate to justify the issue of warrants, makes us repeat that we see no good reason for the first attempt to arrest Courtenay, and no legal prod, nor shadow of legal proof, has been exhi bited, that prior to the brutal murder the lunatic had been guilty of any legal offence." But passing by that first attempt at arrest, and coming to what took place at Bosenden Wood—where we find 100 soldiers, with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, on one side, and about 40 peasants, armed only with sticks, led by a maniac with a brace of pistols on the other—we cannot help asking once more how it happened that, with so overwhelming a force, such an unlawful assemblage was not put down, dis persed, or captured, without the dreadful effusion of blood which has shocked the feelings of society ? It has not, indeed, shocked the thorough-going Government writers ; and if ten times as many victims to the fully of the madman whom the Ministers liberated had fallen by the musket-halls or bayonets of the military, it would only give those Whig scribes the greater opportunity of showing what " mad wags" they arc when such " comical" scenes of popular excitement and mi litary slaughter occur as those which, under Whig sway, have been witnessed at Bristol, Nottingham, Merthyr Tydvil, Bradford, and Bosenden Wood. The Courier last night sneeringly observed that The Herald was huma ne towards 1 everybody but the Whig Ministers. If The Courier has 1 chosen to place the Ministers in the category of cri minals, to try the extent of our charity, we can only say that if the said Ministers were in the predicament of some of those minor delinquents for whom we consider it 1 a duty to intercede with a Government rather too much prone to examples of blood, we woull, notwithstand ing our detestation of their conduct and pi inciples, make every possible effort, as we did in the case of the ex- Ministers of Charles X., to obtain a commutation oftheir sentence. After this I avowal, we hope the sportive sage of the Courier will believe that 1 our humanity is not limited by sect or party, and that our corn -1 passion is very comprehensive. But to return to The Sun— thatl Journal says, in allusion to our remarks on the verdicts of ! wilful murder against Courtenay and others:— " Our Contemporery has properly directed public attention to the fact of Courtenay having been notoriously a madman, which rendered him legally incapable of committing a crime ; and it opens up the doubt, how far the deluded and lunatic i followers could be considered in the eye of the law legally ac ; ces,orie3, when in its eye no crime had been committed." Our Contemporary then goes on to say - - " But if that b a correct view, and if the magistrates e•, en suspected that Ceurtenay was a madman, how much does that enhance the folly of the second hasty and injudicious arrest ? It must have been known to the magistrates that only Courtenay, and at most, one of his followers had fire arms; they must have been aware that the number of the deluded did not exceed 40 ; they had 100 well-trained and well-armed soldiers; they had a considerable number of civil assistants, constables, policemen, and book-keepers, also armed, at least as well as the 40; they had all the peaceful community around with them ; and to U 3, therefore, it appears that their mode of attempting to arrest the madman and his deluded followers was wholly unwarranted. They will have to answer them to the country for the blood which has been shed, while some of them, we sec, are presumptuously talking of shedding more." _ As no Magisterial order was given to " fire," we cannot consi der any Ma g istrate responsible for all the bloodshed ; and, as to the deaths caused by the military, the Coroner's Jury have returned verdicts of " justifiable homicide." Still, between Magistrates and military, it appears an extraordinary thing to us that Courtenay's " little insurrection" could not have been quelled without more slaughter than has attended some of those " great victories" of which the Spanish Generals so pompously boast. There are, certainly, very long odds be tween 100 levelled muskets and forty sticks, though with hearts of reckless bravery promptin , the hands that wielded them. We have already expressed our opinion of Oct extend ing order given by the Rev. Dr. Poore, to take Courtenay dead or alive—and we regret that any Clergyman sLould have given such an order, or lacen prominent at all in a transaction signalized by so much blood and misery.—Morning Herald. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stß,—l shall feel myself obliged by your correcting an error which appeared in your Journal of last evening, under the head of " Parliamentary Intelligence," recording the presentation of a petition by Sir G. Strickland, relative to the Court of Chancery. There being a mistake in the name, which should be " Smith," I particularly wish this to be stated. Your obedient servant, Bristol, May 29, 1538. J. H. SMITH. DUBLIN.-MONO AY. (rnom OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) " Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven."—Pom The benefits of an enlightened and independent Press were never more strongly illustrated than at a meeting in this city, this morning. The " Hibernian Joint Stock Banking Com pany" held their half yearly meeting to-day ; and, after the report of the Directors, and other routine business had been disposed of, a warn discussion arose as to the necessary steps to be taken, in ord=lr to secure for this Company the,advan sages long anticipated by its proprietors, from the renewal of the Bank of Ireland charter, during the present Session of Parliament. Some questions were put as to what the Governor and Directors had done, to carry into effect the report of last year, pledging them to adopt every legitimate means fur pre venting a continued monopoly on the part of the Bank of Ire land. The answers to these questions not being perfectly sa tisfactory to the majority of the proprietors assembled, Doctor BREEN stood up, and said, it would appear from a newspaper, which he produced ( The Sun of Saturday last), that strangers seemed to take a more active interest in our behalf than we had done ourselves. He then directed the at tention of the meeting to the article, in which you commented on a paragraph from the Tines, stating, in effect, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had so far yielded to the remon strances of the Deputation from Drogheda, as to promise that the monopoly in question should not extend more than five miles beyond the city of Dublin. Upon this another Proprietor stood up, and requested to have the article read, and your commentaries thereon : after which he expressed his hopes that the fact stated was not true, for if so, the citizens of Dublin, the metropolis of Ireland, would derive little or no advantage from the expiring of the Bank of Ireland Charter this year. The " Hibernian Bank," in particular, would be precisely as it now stood, not having the privilege of issuing notes within the city, or five miles thereof. The Shareholders would have good reason to be disappointed, and to comelain not only of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but also of the remissness of the Managers of their own property, if a renewal of the monopoly charter were permitted or granted, on the terms mentioned in the news- Piper. This Bank had been established thirteen years ago, on liberal principles-, and under the expectation, that as a fair Company, it would afford accommodation to the public, without any distinction of sect or' party ; but on the broad basis of credit, character, and mutual benefit. It had been cramped in its efforts, by causes which he would not now refer to, to realize profits equal to those of another Bank established at the same time. But it had obtained great character and stability, with moderate gains ; and the time was now arrived, when the Proprietors had a right to expect the full benefit of that character. He hoped the Managers could shew that they had not been remiss in devoting that peculiar attention, which the events of this year demanded, to the interests of the Es tablishment. The Governor and several of the Directors here stated, that they had been watching the proceedings of the Joint Stock Banks Committee of the House of Commons, and that no time was lost in furthering the interests of the Hibernian Bank —that a requisition was in preparation to the Lord Mayor of Dublin to convene a meeting of the citizens upon the sub ject generally, and that in the mean time the managers of the Hibernian Bank held correspondence with friends in London who were exercising the necessary vigilance. The'gentlemen who had raised the discussion replied, that there was need of additional exertion. Petitions to Parliament ought to be immediately adopted, conformably to the sugges tions in The Sun, and a deputation from the Hibernian Bank sent to remonstrate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the injustice of renewing the Bank of Ireland Charter, on the condition mentioned in the Times, which, if true, held out no benefit whatever to other recently instituted banking establish ments in this city. After some discussion on these points, it was finally resolved, without a dissentient voice, that the managers should forthwith adopt the proper means for carrying into effect the resolution of December last. The purport of that resolu tion is, that all legitimate exertions are to be made to prevent a renewal of the Bank of Ireland monopoly. Thus has your Journal succeeded, by its able and enlightened observations, in stirring up a most respectable and important portion of the wealthy citizens of Dublin to a due discharge of their duty to themselves and their countrymen. I have only rcom to add that wt; are much pleased on this side of the water, at the course pursued by Lord John Russell on the Corporation Bill. His yielding to Sir Robert Peel on the point of making the poor-law rate the standard of value to ascertain the bona fide franchise, and not yielding to him in making the franchise a ten pound one in all the corpo rations, indicate a proper knowledge of the people of Ireland, and a determination to legislate according to their wishes and national circumstances. DISGRACEFUL. FRACAS.—Greenwich Fair and Greenwich Railway Rows among the Directors.—About half-past ten o'clock on Monday night, as Mr. George Money, the chairman, was re turning from Greenwich with the Rev. J. M`Donald and his . lady, on coining to the carriages which were under the superintendence of the new managing director, Mr. Gates, an altercation took place, and most violent language was used, such as horsewhipping, &c., which ended in the chairman being given into the custody of the police. HORSE STEALER.—OII Friday last, a young man, hav i ng the appearance of an ostler, was stopped in Chelsmford market with a pony he was offering for sale, and which Newman, the constable, suspected, from the contradictory accounts he gave, had been stolen. When taken before the magistrates, by whom he was remanded, he said he lived with a person named Demon, in the Old Kent.road but he subsequently confessed that his name was Wilson Briton, that he came from Braintree, and that the pony had been stolen from Mr. Chalmers, of the Robin Hood, Kingston Bottom.—Esscx Herald. The - Irish steamers are still continuing to import vast quantities of vegetables.into our market. As the season has been extremely unfavourable to vegetation, the supply of spring grown -Irish vegetables has proved very seasonable to our citizens. Our market is supplied twice a week with vegetables from Ireland via the Arab and Mercury. New potatoes are expected in a short time front the same quarter.—Glasgate Chronicle. A few days ago the long-boat of the store-ship Chandernagor was towed into Boulogne by a fishing boat, having on board a sailor nearly dead with fatigue and hunger, having eaten nothing wmore than five days. It seems that he had fallen asleep in the boat the ve , ,,cl in Ilre-q harbour tliat the boat !: loose, and that on aw,km,g he found that he had drified far out to sea ; he was subsequently washed up the Channel, and, notwithstanding all his exertions, was unable to reach Land until picked up by the fishing boat. SPORTING INTLI,LIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S—YESTERDA r. THE DERBY AND OAKS. The settling for the above races took place yesterday, and, agree ably to general expectation, went off amazingly well ; better, in deed, than for many years. So pleasant a termination to a year's speculation is attributable not only to the small amount of the losses, but to the fact of their being incurred almost wholly by those who are always ready to meet their engagements. We do not mean to say that every account was settled, but the amount left unpaid is too inconsiderable to excite any uneasiness. ASCOT CUP. It was declared that Slane was lame, and Kill not start either for the above race or for the Somersetshire or Gloucestershire Stakes. A report was in circulation that Redshank was also lame, but no thing authentic transpired. ASCOT HEATH, TUESDAY NEXT. ACCEPTANCES. The Oatlands Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. and only 10 if de clared by Saturday next. Two miles and a halt. Mr. Wickham s Pincher, aged, Bst. ; - Lord Exeter's Dardanelles 4 yrs, 7st. 131 b. ; Lord Exeter's Velure, 4 yrs, 7 st. 101 b. ; Mr. V. M. Stanley's Willesden, 5 yrs, 7st. 91b. ; Mr. V. Dolphin's The Skater, 5 yrs, 7st. 51b. ; and Duke of Richmond's Bracelet, 3 yrs, 10st. 51b. A Piece of Plate, value 200 sovs., given by her Majesty, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes' of 25 soya. each, for three years old. Swinley Course. Those that declare forfeit by Saturday next to pay 10 sore. only. Lord Exeter's Mecca, Bst. 71b. ; Lord G. Bcntinck'e Seth, Bst. 11b. ; Mr. Greville's Morea, 7st. 91b. ; Mr. Osbaldestou's The Fairy Queen, ist. 91b. ; Duke of Richmond's Hooghiey , 7st. 71b. ; Sir. G. Edwards's ch. c. by Dr. Eadv, dam by Reveller, out of Undine, 7st. 41b. ; Captain Gardnor's Bandboy, by Trumpeter, out of Count Robinson's darn, 6st. 71b. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1840. FRIDAY'. The Port Stakes, a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. ; colts, Bst. 71b; fillies, Bst. 41b ; then four years old, and not nursed in the Claret. T.M.M. . Sealed up nominations not to be opened till after the running for the Oaks Stakes. The owner of the second horse to withdraw his stake. Lord Exeter's Alcmdar, General Grosvenor's Dwdalus, Mr. E. Tarletores Blaise, Lord Chesterfield's Don John, Lord Chester field na. c. by Velocipede, out of Nonplus's dam ; Mr. Forth's f. Sister to Marvel, by Muley, out of Lacerta ; Lord Jcrqey's Phcenix, Lord Albernarle's Barcarolle, by Emilius , Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus, Lord G. Bentinck's and Mr. Thornhill's Saint loin. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1839. FRIDAY. Sweelistakes of 103 sous. each, h. ft., for fillies, then three years old, warranted untried at the time of naming, Bst. 71b. each. D. ill. Those out of untried mares allowed Sibs. A winner of 200 sots. before the day of starting to carry 71b. extra. Lord Stradbroke's b. f. by Priam, out of Monimia (mare untried); Lord Exeter's f. by Reveller, out of Amina (mare untried); Lord Tavistock's ch. f. by Taurus,,, out of Leeway (m. untried) ; "W. Sowerby's ro. f. Barmaid, by Augustus, out of Constantia, by Camel ; Duke of Portland's f. by the Colonel, dam by Reveller, cut of Veil (snare untried). The extraordinary match against time, run on the 27th ult., on the road from Brussels to Antwerp, has excited great interest in the Belgian capital. The horse was a thoroughbred Chesnut, called Uncle John, belonging to M. Laurence, and was ridden by a favou rite jockPy of Mr. Long Wellesley. His accomplishing the task was the more wonderf..l, as, on the preceding Monday, he met with an accident so severe that it was fully believed he would be incapa citated from running, and the odds were high in favour of time. The horse was, however, brought round by the skill of his veteri nary surgeon, although still obliged to wear an India - rubbe r boot. When he fell ' at the lines of Antwerp he remained for some time motionless, with his eves closing, and was believed to bo dying, but as he revived as soon as his saddle was taken off, the jockey, without his cap, jumped On his back, and rode him in the time we have before stated. It should be added that four of the miles were over a paved road, which it was impossible to avoid, and that the gallant animal had to pass through several towns and villages. Ile is now so far recovered from the fatigue of his unparalleled feat as to feed well, and to show no affection of the lungs ; but his near foreleg is somewhat swollen. GREAT - RADICAL DEMONSTRA TION, AT BATH IN FAVOUR OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AND THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Preparations haVing been making for some time past to have a thorough Radical demonstration of the citizens of Bath, and A.. Vincent, in London, having been invited to attend, the proceedings took place on Whit Monday, by a public meeting in the Corn Market, and a social tea festival at the Guildhall in the evening. At ten o'clock in the morning the members of the Working Men's Association, and a numerous body of the citizens, together with friends from Bristol, Trowbridge, and the surrounding districts, assembled on the North Pa-ade, decorated with colones, banners, flags, &c. The procession, which was a very large one, having been duly arranged, at eleven o'clock the Committee conducted Mr. Vincent to the assembly, who was received with the hearty acclamations of the multitude. The Committr e having taken up their posi ti,n, the band struck up, and the procession moved on through Widcombe, and on passing over the old bridge was saluted by a round of cannon and a peal of the Abbey bells, and after proceeding through the principal streets of the city, arrived at the Corn Market, where hustings had been erected, at half past twelve o'cir.ek. The immense meeting presented a very animated appearance, vvhich was increased by the presence of numerous well-dressed ladies. Mr. BoLWELL was called to the chair, and made an ex cellent speech, which was loudly cheered. Very excellent speeches were also made by Mr. GEORGE BARTLETT, and Mr. MEALING, in proposing the first resolu tion, deprecating the present miserable condition of the work ing people. The resolution, after being supported by Mr.-Alderman CRISP in a very eloquent speech, was carried by acclamation. The second resolution, in favour of Uriiversal Suffrage, was moved by Mr. SAMUEL BARTLETT, who ably introduced the People's Charter to the Meeting ; he was loudly cheered. The CHAIRMAN then introduced Mr. Vincent to the Meet ing, cheering who was received with tremendous and clapping of hands. We regret we have not his speech fur insertion. He spoke with great spirit and eloquence for nearly an hour end a half, and concluded amidst the most enthusiastic and continued acclamation. After carrying a resolution, adopting the People's Charter, and voting thanks to Mr. Vincent, to which he replied in a neat speech, warning the people against man-worship, and calling upon them to adhere to principle, the meeting separated. THE FESTIVAL AT THE GUILDHALL, In the evening the Banquet-rooom in the Guildhall was crowded to excess by a highly intelligent and respectable body of persons, fully one half of which were ladies. At half-past five Mr. Vincent entered the room. The whole company simul taneously rose and received him with the most enthusiastic cheering and waving of handkerchiefs. The company then pu-took of an excellent tea ; after which Mr. PHILIPS was called to the chair. The evening was then passed by ad dresses and democratic sorbs. Mr. Vincent delivered one of the mcst eloquent addresses to the men , and ladies we ever lis tened to. He favoured the company with a democratic song, "Plant, plant the tree." After speeches fr:un the Bristol w - 1 Trowbridge friends, Alderman Crisp, &c , the assembly broke up at a late hour. Thus ended a day which will never be forgot by the people of Bath, in which principle and social feeling were enjoyed in the highest degree. GUATEMALA. (Extract from a Private Letter.) Since my return to this country, I found all in revolution. Galvez was overthrown by Barrundia and Molina, and now all are against the present State Government—with Pedro Valenzutla as Vice-Chief, supported by his friends Barrundia and Molina, who must all fall. Morazan (lalc President) is in Mataquescuintla, with about 2,500 men, to attack Carera, who heads a band of rebel Indians; to-day they fight. We shall have a change of Government, perhaps centralism. March 28, 1838. FRENCH SAVINGS' BANKS. The annual meeting of the Directors of the Savings' Banks was held the day before yesterday. M. Benjamin Delessert, the President, made his report on the state of the Bank cf Paris, and gave a summary of the operations of those in the Departments. It appears that the total receipts of the SaVings' Banks of Paris during the year 1837, amounted to 26,398,266 f., and its re-payments to 25,920,7021., leaving an excess of receipts 477,5631., which, added to the total of deposits in the Bank at the end of 1836, gives a total due to depositors of 50,686 ; 611f. The expenccs of the Bank during the year amounted to 67,0921. The large amoant of the repayments made in 1837 is accounted for by the panic that existed in March and April, when the deposits were transferred to the Caisse des Depots et Consignations, th e sums repaid during those months being 5,455 f. and 5,809,0001. respectively. A recapitulation of all the operations of the Paris Savings' Bank, from its foundation, November 15, 1818, to 31st December, 1837, shows that its total receipts and profits have been 166,627,3881., and its repayments 115,940,7771. The number of depositors at the beginning of 1837 was 80,798 during the year 27,769 new deposits were made, and 23,689 depositors paid off ; giving at the end of 1837 as the total of depositors, 84,878. The total number of savings banks established in the departments is 247. The total of their receipts and profits from 1818 up to the end of 1836 has been 88,362,399 ; of their repay ments 42,449,626 f. ; their receipts during 1837 were 33,708,4751. ; their repayments 23,043,1851., giving for 1837 an excess of 10,665,2901., and leaving on the total sum due to depositors 56,578,0631. The number of depositors at the beginning of 1837 was 96,542 ; the new deposits for 1837 were 58,546 ; the depositors repaid amounted to 29,522, leav ing for the end of 1837 as the total of depositors 120,466. The average amount of each deposit in Paris is 597 f., in the departments 470 f. Comparing the populations of towns with the amounts of deposits, the average at Paris for each inhabi tant is 551. ; at Versailles, 80f. ; at Toulon, 67f. ; at Metz, 561, ; Brest, 56f. ; Lorient, 561. ; Bourdeaux, 47f. ; Nantes, 361 ; Rouen, 23f. ; Marseilles, 191. ; Lyons, 14f, There are five departments in which savings banks do not yet exist, viz., Creuse, Lozere, Ilautes Alpes, Basses Alpes, and Cor sica, nor are there any in the considerable towns of Aix, A r i e s, Vienne., Narbonne, Riom, lssoudun, Moissac, Ville neuve, d'Agen, &c. After hearing the report from the.com mittee of censors, M. Joseph P6rier and ;NI. Locquet were chosen to the same office for the year ensuing. M. Blanqui, Director of the School of' Commerce, has been elected a member of the Academy of Moral and Politi cal Sciences. Tile Worcester ,lO:trnal a taies, that last week a gentleman of Hereford killed in the river Lugg a trout, weighing 111). 130 h., in the stomach of which were found 53 full.sized minnows. WINDSOR-TUESDA Y. .3. The Queen arrived at the Castle at quarter past six terday evening. Her 'Majesty was accomp;,lnied by her Roya Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by the Count tees of Mu] rave and Lady Theresa Digby. In the suae o f her Majesty, which occupied four carriaffes, we re the Mar quis of Conyngharn, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Lilford,. Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Charles Murray, Lady Flora Ha.s-s5" tiugs, Hon. Colonel Cavendish , Hon. Miss Dillon, All Davys, Col. Wemyss. Viscount Melbourne also arrived, and accompanied the halt" Queen to the College„this morning , and fro m thence to Hill. Her M.ijesty was not present at the Eton regatta, wijcl,ll took place last night, and which was most numerously ap. brilliantly attended. The weather was f avourable both for me' boating and fireworks, as but one shower fell durin g the even" e m ing. The company present included a gr eat p ortion of th aristocracy, and all the nobility and g e ntlemen in the neig bourhood, besides an innumerable concourse of p e rsons ut , tracte d by the triennial fete of the Montem , w hick took plae° this day, favoured by weather and every other circumstance. COURT CIRCULAR. I-ler Majsty, after honouring the Eton Montern with he' presence, returned to town at 20 minutes p a st four o' clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Ca stle, in an open baroueiw and four, accompanied by her august Mother, and atten ded by the Countess of Mulgrave. The Ro y al suite followed in Ma one n errringes and four, and included La d y Flora Hastings 9 Hon. Miss Dillon, Hon. Miss Paget, Lady Theresa DigbY, Baroness Lehien, Miss Davys, and Colonel Werny-ss. Her' Marsty was escorted by a party of Lancers. In the evening the Queen a nd the Duchess of Kent honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were also prennt to witness the debut of Mlle. Taglioni. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took a drive to Ghel"a yesterday, in a pony phaeton. The Duchess of GloLuester visited her Majesty yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard, waited in Kensington Gardens yesterday afternoon. Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Corn.' wall, left town yesterday morning, to attend the Eton Montern• Despatches from the Governors of New South Wales, . 10 ' maiea, and Barbadoes, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Don Vicente Pazos, Consul- Genend of the Peru Bolivian confederation, had an interview, on Monday, with Viscoun t Palmerston, at the Foreign Office. Viscount Melbourne returned to town yesterday from Windsor. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN ARRIVALS. . Henley, Esq., Mrs., and the Mis ses Henley, a t Mar - W shall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-goare, from \Vaterferty, Oxon ; John Haw, Esq., Mrs., and Misr H aw, at ditto, f ro Weston Colville; George Sligo, Esq., Mrs., and Miss slip"' at ditto, from the Isle of Wight: Mr., Mrs, And Miss Lang' ton Bcrley, at ditto; - Swinton, Esq., at ci;.!.to, from tbo Continent ; Captain Roebuck, at ditto, from India; 1 %:Ir• Ca r : bat and family, at the Brunswick House Hotel, 1-10,", - , square, from the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Martineau; -t ditto; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ticknor, at ditto; Mr. Gray, 3 ditto ; Lady and Miss SoDtt, at ditto ; HJn. Montague Ong' Icy, at ditto. DEPARTLTRES. Mr. and Mrs. M'Vicar, and Miss Burns, from the Bruns- Mr. House Hotel, Hanover square; Captain and Mrs. V e r den, from ditto ; Sir Frederic Cooper, from ditto ; Mr. v e-d rniliya, Mr. Selden, and Miss Jarvis, from ditto ; Mr. an Mrs. Collingwood, from Marshall Thom son's Hotel, Cal cll- 11 ; dish-square, for Brighton ; Sir W. Milner and Son, fr.ll, ditto ; Hon. Berkeley Noel, ftom ditto; Rev. 'V. Douro' 7 4 : and daugliters, from ditto, for Hertfordshire; Mr. Shervcoo" from ditto. - • --- The Russian Ambassador countermanded t his the party last evening to the corps diplomatique, in consequenCePf ''" ,t:r assas sination of his nephew Count Pozzo di Ber g s, at Ajaccio, tho' .ri end of last month. The melancholy intelligence reac h e d Ashburdht• _ House on Sunday evening, and has plunged the w h o l e family into trl°. _ deepe st g rief. The late Count was a brother of the Coun t Charles Pezz° di for g o, arid a Colonel and Paymaster in the French army. •., Lord Stanley gave a dinner on Monday evening, i". St. James's-square, to the following Members of the House ofConillon,„!; —Sir James Graham, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Ireland Inackburnc, ';',), Hon. William Sebright Lascelles, Mr. Tattoo Egerton, Mr. To%%';: eir . Parker, Hon. Captain Cecil Forester, Lord George Bentinek,onnion Major Yorke Scarlett, Colonel Conolly, Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Aid, ~,e ct, Copeland, Hon. H. G. Moteton, Hon. Sydney 1-I.ztrbert, Colonel and Viscount Ossulston. . i ii sti- Mr. Richardson, curator of the Mantelban owl tuticn, has been appointed assistant curator in the department c'ig and fussilt, at the British Muse il um. pre re' Despatches, dated the sth of Apr, ,„,..,_ opc . ceived yesterday from Major-General Nap i er , th e Governor of th.. of Good Hope. Despatches, dated May 17, were received yester day at the ColoniAl-offico, from General Sir Henry Bouverie, the Ge'"' vernor of Mal a. Despatches, dated May 14, were received' yester. day at the Colonial D epartment from the Canadas ; and from the offi cers administering her Majesty's Government in the British deperiden• cies in North America. Despatches, dated January 31, were received yes terday at the India Board from Lord Auckland, the Governor-Genera l of India. ' The 13edford Election contest is said to have cost Mr. Stuart, the loser, 10,0001., and Mr. Crawley, the winner, 9,00 a The Carlton Club find their house, though so re cently erected and entered upon, by no means large enough, a nd ae' o about to build one upon a much gran d er s cale. For their Brent house they arc said to be in treaty with the members of the Parthelle°' —Herald. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton returned to Bridg o water house yesterday from Oatlands, their seat in S urr e y . The Nou _ '.. Lord has quite recovered from a stubborn attac k o f g out, from the , le .. bilitatin g effects of which he had been suffering for severa l months p,M, Lord Stanley left town at an early hour yesterda) morning to attend the Manchester races, an d thence to Knowsley Oro: fe w days. His Lordship is expected to return to St , James'„square Saturday Count next. and Countess Charles Pozzi di Borg° Ncill .; ~, Al 9" shortly leave Ashburnham House, for the Hotel of the Rusi.-,,,,, r 0 b u a n s t s i a l atd a o rt r er t hParis, Countess's wliere t a t e N zi:/ b , e l , e ne C n o t, u , i , r i t , i andcii is shortly Countess will " The Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of theexl Earl ' Shrewsbury, is fixed upon to be the principal train-bearer to the Oticc s at the Coronation. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge hais,, been g raciously pleased to become on. of the Patrons of that vw b „,: i Institution, the Jews' Orphan Asylum. The command of his 1 1 ° ,- ,, Hi g liness wa s comm unicated by Colonel Kcate in a letter addressed to 0 Lyon, Es q ., President of the Institution. ~,,,ger We have to announce the death of the D°•'" c . in; Lady Southampton, which took place at Cheltenham on Sunday e'-') ,ected. _f last, in the 62d year of her a g e. d.' By the death of the late Mr. Chalie, his gra" °t' dau g hter, Miss Richards, becomes entitled to a fortune of upwards 300,0001. Lord Brougham is to take the chair at the anniver : sary festival of the Royal Free Hospital, about the '22cl instant, a t t c London Tavern. I Lord Leveson, M.P., has returned to Devonshire House, from a visit to Lord Rivers, at Mistley Hall, Essex. ff The two Princes Kotschubey, Count Benerend°Y. and fm Cr Russian g entlemen, formin g part of the suite of Count Strr3°-,°,,, noff, the Russian Special Minister, arrived on Monday evening At ley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from St. Petersburgh. , O f The Earl of Belfast, the new Vice- Cha.mberla'n, t h o e r e Tn i t 4 eh a ri jeeusptcoy upon the turil,neo Countess of arrived u h ct a i s eislao rf e iisnao a p t rno a ti t n at l in ' teliedlit,ot appointment. s Hotelady E rr :i t; a r b a e " t i ii '''' Clements have arrived at the Park Hotel at Norwood. The c°S, c te' '3: has been succeeded as Lady in Waiting on her Majesty for the Pr- month b) Marqthe Counteuisss of Mul g rave. The and Marchioness of Ailesbury 113:,, arm ived at Paris from Italy, and may be expected in town in a feW ' d 3. The health of the Mar q uis is q uite re-established. fort' Mrs. Montefiorc entertained the Duke of 13e¢ at et and a distinguished party at •linner, on Monday, in Grea t St anhol)c 6,-rbis General Pire is to accompany Marshal Soult O n embassy, in the capacity of aide-de-camp. t il . 1 5 The Earl of Chesterfield is said to hav e I %,fe superb family mansion, in Mayfair, for one fortnight only , to his '' forti"le e Hi g hness Prince Schwartzenberg, the Austrian Spec i a l M inister+, o ll sum of 3,5001. The Noble Earl's winnings on t h e Oaks 't re considerable. ghat regard IV., though not generally noted fet r a th at. re g ard of foreign tinsel, g ave an especial injunction that neti,r - Cer° - was nit of British fabric should, on any account, be used at 'ls ,S nation- a re g ulation which was faithfully adhered to. N Viiite A proposition made by Brookes's Club to be and Boodle's, to g ive a g rand coronation ball, has been negat ive ,, d ,.:o t h lY two latter ; at White's, on Saturday, of GO members present, t” . , - ., e d it wer' for accepting the invitation ; and yesterday Boodle's nel;3l' by a majority of 91 to 17. C O THE CO RO NATI ON.—We See by the '"--- , o -,5 sub scriPs - papers that in most places meetin g s have been held, a nd entered into for celebrating the Coronation. There cad be, We submit; sup no better appropriation of the funds collected than such an One 3 : 1 „ i n Warding the g lare of g as, illumination lamp's, tallow candles, anogri l ike puerile display, fora substantial benefit, which would fee d the hu and make the heart of the poor to rejoice. a ` 1 ) BERLIN, MAY 30.—There scarcely pas sed -- ; th o b last week without bringin g one or the other little sovereign of the m em in lri states of Germany to our court. The most remarkab le among Vilbas every respect was the cognit Kin g of Wirtemberg, the only Prince _',. he ig thrown the veil of ino - over the splendour of MajestY , f i ° that here under, the name of ount or Teck ; but well can he re s'st craii prince a sp tt le ra to io u i r i a n s t t i h o e w, t , w ho o leb r illiasenst, assembly, being t b er e s in , gform time most Bo W e roo ,t splendid beauties that ever have shone at this court.in Sovcrmi. is that they will leave Berlin as the bethrothed, ONE of a you n g the other of one who has a crown in expectation. Our Prince Royal is observed to be th e chief favourite with all the high foreigners Dere ; b " tit affability, his manly deportment, his unsullied moral life, and last , ~,,,, not leas t , his brilliant wit, in which he almost e q uals his illustir;,,o. relative,. Frederick the Great, render him the centre of . every re:, co IHE SIRIUS.—On Thursday the Sirius saile ' o f diserpuhteabrlzuntobur 56, her second excursion. She started from Passages amid the chc(,r.us,e, thousands of spectators. She is under the command of Captain M, ' ~ t e her former Commander, Lieutenant Roberts, R.N., having ge s 'i rigs Scotland, to superintend the fitting of the British Queen. The takes out fifty-seven passengers. d e ft LISBON, MAY 29.—Lord Howard de \Val , ~ embarked a bout ei g ht, A.M., on the 2.3 d, under a salute from . t . "`,: Donegal. His Excellency took I,,ive.or the 12t,:cii 0., tho Olst, (1 . 1 Ile.roorable Mr. Jeriiin g leun, Secrotory of Lu t z.ptiou, was forrnall _: ..,,, duced on the '22d to the Foreign Minister as Charge d'Affaires. Count Metaxis had a private audience also of the Queen, and delivered 0" dentials as Minister of Greece at this Court.